Apps to recover deleted files

[Atsirt]

Are there any apps or ways of recovering photos and files that have been deleted and removed from the trash? 

Also is there a way to lock sync option on. My son keeps turning it off on my tablet...

[RedDogRabbit · Accepted solution]

Maybe if you have a friend who works at the NSA, you could probably recover deleted files / images. (Not very helpful I know). 

If your Tablet has a "Kids" mode, you could enable it to prevent your son from doing things that you don't want to have happening. Aside from that, there really isn't any way to prevent someone who has login / password access to your device. 

[Atsirt]

Ill check if it has a kids mode. Thank you, fingers crossed 🤞

[RedDogRabbit]

Pull Down the QS Tiles & Top Right Click on Edit Buttons. If Kids Mode is there (as in the screen shot), Just Pull it down into the QS Tiles & It will give you quick access to it. 

 

[Atsirt]

No, kids mode was not on

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[Dem_Crumblies_TechYT]

You can use various recovery software to retrieve deleted photos and files from Android phones. However, most of these programs require payment, which can range from $40 USD or more. I'd search on YouTube about recovering files from Android phones to get an idea of the software people use (usually can be used on computers too).

The most important thing to note is that you should attempt recovery as soon as possible. Any time you delete a file on your phone or computer, the file is not actually permanently deleted unless you use military grade wipes, which don't come on most devices by default. However, as you download more files, the data sector that housed the "deleted" file can get overwritten by new files. So that's why you should attempt recovery as soon as possible so that the deleted data sector doesn't get overwritten. 

[RedDogRabbit]

"various recovery software", are almost all entirely ineffective. Some are outright scams. 

Android data recovery apps have a slim chance of retrieving lost data. They will try to work by looking at where data has been stored even when it's deleted by Android.

Consumer grade software isn't going to do the job. 

I'd be thrilled if you could prove me wrong. 

I was kinda, sorta joking when I mentioned the NSA, but law enforcement is likely to be the only semi reliable way to recover lost data, and even then... 

[Dem_Crumblies_TechYT]

You're probably right now. Last time I had to recover texts and photos was from an iPhone 5 and I used Recuva after connecting it to my computer to scan the phone's internal memory, which worked without issue. Looks like some people have had success with DiskDigger, but it works best with a rooted phone and not everyone is comfortable doing that.

[RedDogRabbit]

Unfortunately / Fortunately almost none of the North American Samsung Snapdragon devices can be Rooted. So we are limited in terms of what we can access. 

Purley on principle I have an issue with not being able to get Administrator Rights (Essentially Root access). Imagine if you could not run a Windows machine as an Administrator!

But for practical reasons, I don't miss not being able to Root my device (easily). 

Although I haven't looked into the quality of Data Recovery programs recently, I'm aware that many of them charge upfront, and don't actually deliver what they advertise. 

I think that we both know that data is almost never "actually deleted", but the issue is being able to actually recover it without using Law Enforcement level programs. 

For all practical purposes, once we delete data, we can't recover it with consumer grade software. 

Backups, & using more than one storage system, are crucial if you want to TRY to guarantee the preservation of your data.